Europeans Starting to Acknowledge Loss of Spiritual Values, Return to Roots: Scholar

IQNA – Europeans have started to realize the loss of spiritual values in the past decades, prompting them to return to their cultural rules, a senior lecturer at the Islamic College of London.

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"There has been an increasing secularization in the West sometimes there is a referral back to the Enlightenment period which championed so-called reason,” Dr. Rebecca Masterton said in her speech at the "Sublime Family and Challenges of Modernity" online seminar on Saturday. 

“In the pursuit of objective truth, various European countries have let go of their spiritual and religious traditions,” she added.

“Spiritual values provided a foundation of brotherhood across various European countries and with the cultivation of an increasingly materialistic society eventually European societies and cultures have pretty much forgotten what spirituality is, what the training of the soul is,” she reminded.

“While from the outside European countries may look fairly well managed and people may seem to be doing fairly well on a material level when it comes to the actual internal content of people in terms of their soul in terms of their thinking and their daily preoccupations then we find that there is an emptiness that lies at the heart of European culture,” according to Masterton.

“This is starting to change slightly because, maybe a little bit too, late Europeans starting to realize what they threw away and they are starting to panic somewhat and try to go back to their cultural and spiritual roots,” she said, adding, “Sometimes these cultural and spiritual roots even go back to prior to the coming of Christianity.”

Co-organized by the Iranian Vice-Presidency for Women and Family Affairs and IQNA, the seminar explored the necessity of a global movement for promoting family.

Dr. Ensieh Khazali, Iran's Vice-President for Women and Family Affairs, and Dr. Maryam Ardebili, Head of the Women and Family Affairs Department of Tehran Municipality, addressed the seminar in person. International scholars who delivered speeches at the webinar were Dr. Rebecca Masterton, Dr. Rabab al-Sadr, President of Imam al-Sadr Foundation, Dr. Masoumeh Jafari, director of Jameat Al’zahra in Pakistan, and Dr. Rima Habib, director of Palestinian Islamic Jihad's women affairs' department.

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